On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 20:28, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On 7 Aug 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > > b) A fully userspace mode, that uses rpm's --relocate feature to > > > install rpm's built to be relocatable into paths in the user's > > > personally writeable space. This latter would enable yum to be used by > > > vendors to distribute and update valuable data to ordinary users -- > > > together with a) in a controlled and accountable way. > > > > > > > > > 1. --relocate is broken. > > 2. most pkgs will break for it even if they were built right > > 3. this is crackrock. > > 4. sigh. Keep in mind - juggling dependencies for a single system and single database is hard enough. Doing it for 2 gets dramatically harder and relocatable binaries are difficult to make on their best day. -sv
